Obesity continues to increase in the US.  The average weight of adults is 25 pounds more than it was 20 years ago: why?

It’s not genetics when so many gain so much so quickly but our environment has changed.  Consumption of carbonated beverages sweetened with high fructose corn syrup has increased radically.  At 150 calories per 8oz serving and the average adult having more than 3 servings a day…  It adds up to a 20 pound gain in a year.

There is a system in the body that controls energy balance.  What has caused this system to get out of whack so that we continue to eat when our bodies  have enough to sustain us?  That’s what the body should do, stop us.

Teens, children, adults, even babies: the problem is both tragic and a danger to our society.  This lecture talks about the origins of the problem and some approaches to a solution.

Here is the first part of 9, be sure to follow through with the other parts.

Obesity – health problem | lose-weightblog.com

Obesity-even moderate overweight- puts an undue stress on the back, legs, and internal organs, which can eventually exacerbate many physical problems and compromise health. It can cause a higher risk of … The most common cause of obesity are poor diet and/or eating habits and a lack of exercise. What to do? How to achieve this? 1. Do not worry so much about the numbers of calories you consume as about eating the proper foods. Rotate your foods and be sure to eat a …

REVERSING CHILDHOOD OBESITY – Alternative Health

Children under eight don’t have critical thinking skills and so don’t realize that ads are created to convince people to buy products. Very young children don’t distinguish between a commercial and television programming. … There are many things that parents can do to influence children to develop healthy food choices. Here are ten great Eating for HealthTM suggestions to overcome childhood obesity. Buy organic. Purchase organic fruits, vegetables, grains, milk, eggs, …

College Linemen at Risk for Obesity, Diabetes | Science News

Despite the high-intensity workout that college football linemen get out on the field, they are not protected from developing obesity, heart disease and. … with the emphasis on needing to be bigger is that some cant obtain that size with just lifting, so theyre getting some of that body mass in an unhealthy fashion,” Borchers said. “Clinicians also really need to be paying attention when these guys are done playing,” he said. “Many players will be done after college. …

Fitness and Nutrition Center: 3 reasons why obesity is… a disease?

Their entire stance is obesity (which, btw, can be only 30lbs or so over your ideal bodyweight) is an actual disease. Well, is it? Yes… and no. Comedian Ricky Gervais has a hilarious go at this stance… that obesity is a disease. … Now , one could (and many will) make the argument that I had a “mental” disease that caused me to WANT to hit myself over the head with a hammer… but… well… At this point we need to redefine the word “disease” in my opinion. …

Dr. Mark Hyman has produced a series of YouTube videos that are collected here for your convenience.  Everyone should watch these whether diabetic or not.  Dr. Hyman dispels the myths about the disease and how to handle it by a healthy lifestyle that everyone can benefit from.

Part 1: Mark Hyman, M.D. explains how diabesity (diabetes + obesity) is not something we are doomed to get based on our genetics — it’s completely under our control and Dr. Hyman shows you how.

Part 2: Watch as Dr. Hyman explores how toxins hidden inside your body can wreak havoc on your metabolism and trigger diabesity (diabetes + obesity).

Part 3: Want a quick, easy, surprisingly refreshing way to help rebalance your insulin levels and overcome diabesity? The solution is simple: Just learn to relax! Stress makes you fat and contributes to the development of diabesity. Listen as Dr. Hyman explores the connection between stress a diabesity (diabetes + obesity).

Part 4: How can a fork help you prevent, treat, and even reverse diabesity and let you re-gain control of your life? Listen in as Dr. Hyman will also explain the four simple nutritional principles that govern the entire dietary program his patients follow to prevent and reverse diabesity. Follow those four rules and you will go a long way toward recovering from diabesity.

Part 5: Watch as Dr. Hyman reviews how medications do not treat the causes of your diabesity, they just mask the symptoms. While they may be a necessary bridge for some (there are two that Dr. Hyman sometimes find helpful), the only way you are going to heal from diabesity is if you treat the underlying dietary, lifestyle, and environmental causes that are driving your condition.

Mark Hyman, MD: The Diabesity Epidemic

The US is the ONLY country that uses HFCS as the main sweetener in it’s food supply, the incidence of Obesity and Diabetes has NOT increased in other countries like it has here. Your body will thank you with weight loss once you stop …

Sugar substitutes contribute to obesity in children

Sugar substitutes contribute to obesity in children. December 17, 2009 – 11:00 pm. Sugar substitutes contribute to obesity in children. Fructose may increase the risk of diabetes and obesity in children.

Growing Obesity Epidemic Will Double Diabetes Population

And diabetes and obesity will lead the way in driving the country into a total financial wipeout. It doesn’t have to be this way, however. Diabetes costs don’t have to triple. We can turn this whole thing around with some simple, diet changes.

Morbid Obesity on the Rise in Type 2 Diabetes

Morbid Obesity on the Rise in Type 2 Diabetes.

School dinner cuts could lead to diabetes

“There has been a rise in the number of teenagers getting type 2 diabetes and it’s mostly because of obesity. And I can see what will happen if prices go up: children stop buying nutritious food from the school and end up walking out to fast food restaurants.

Other related articles on Diabetes from the web

• A New Treatment Now Available for Type 2 Diabetes (prweb.com)
• Type 2 diabetes cures (doctorrw.blogspot.com)
• Really?: The Claim: Vinegar Can Help Lower Blood Sugar Levels. (nytimes.com)
• Diabetes and Immunity (Immune Causes) (healthhype.com)
• 8 basic diabetes questions answered (cnn.com)

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In this expert article Shane Ellison presents information about getting healthy fats into your diet. Healthy fats include Olive Oil, Fish Oil, and other non-transfat fats that contain Omega-3s and other healthy nutrients. Olive Oil should be your oil of choice. Consider using it instead of butter. Have you been to a traditional Italian restaurant? Always Olive Oil is on the table and you have to ask for butter. There is wisdom to this borne out by modern science that has shown the health benefits of Olive Oil. If you go to the store you will find different grades and prices for the Oil. The type depends on how it is processed. The best to buy is Extra Virgin. This oil is pressed out and heat is not used to get it. It means that it is as pure and natural as you can get it.

So substitute Olive Oil for butter – Olive Oil and vinegar dressing is good too. By the way there is a whole other story to tell about the benefits of vinegar and you will see them here in future posts.

The Big Fat Scam for the Obese and Diabetic
by Shane Ellison

Traditionally, a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet is recommended for the obese and type II diabetics. This low-fat approach is based on simple math. Fat has about twice as many calories per gram as carbohydrates and protein. Regardless of the lower calorie content, applying the theory has proven disastrous. It has secured America a seat in the worldwide Fat Ass Hall of Fame while giving birth to a diabetes epidemic. No surprise, math isn’t the best measure of a foods effect on the body. Biochemistry is – go figure.

In contrast to carbohydrates, eating fat (not trans fat, but naturally occurring fat) has proven to be the most important method for ensuring fat loss and warding off diabetes. This is courtesy of fats inability to spike the fat storing hormone insulin – and prevent us from feeding our pie hole excess calories. Thus, despite eating fat in the form of grass fed beef, seeds, nuts, avocados, coconut oil or fish, you won’t suffer from unsightly belly fat. This phenomenon has been proven many times.

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition recently showed that eating twice as much fat led to greater weight loss. Researchers compared two eating plans that were similar in caloric intake but vastly different in fat consumption. Obese individuals who consumed 61% fat energy for eight weeks lost 18 pounds; those consuming a mere 30% fat lost 14 pounds (they replaced the fat intake with 46% carbs). (1) Far more staggering than the differences in weight loss are the differences in biochemistry among the two groups.

Low fat, high carbohydrate eaters have the perfect biological environment for obesity and type II diabetes. Their blood levels of glucose, insulin and triglycerides skyrocket.(2) The Nurses’ Study by Harvard found that women who adhere to the Big Fat Scam and eat mostly carbohydrates increase their risk of diabetes 2.5 times! Men are not immune to the deadly carbohydrate effect.

Diabetics usually die early from heart disease, twice as often as those without diabetes. It is so damaging that it can erase 11-20 years from a persons lifespan. Currently, an estimated one in four American’s suffer from it. One in three born in the year 2000 will succumb to the Big Fat Scam and therefore suffer from diabetes according to The Journal of the American Medical Association. (3)

The best way to avoid being an honorary member of the Fat Ass Hall of Fame and the diabetes epidemic is to avoid the Big Fat Scam. Start eating more fat (avoid trans fats, of course, and give preference to fats with omega-3’s). Judge your food based on its effect on insulin (via glycemic load), count calories second. Stop futzing around with fad diets and self-proclaimed weight loss gurus who push wanton pill and supplement use as well as whole grains, fruit juice, sugary yogurt, candy bars disguised as health bars and most anything else served out of a box, package or window.

References:

1. Barclay, Laurie. Low-Carb/High-Fat or High-Carb/Low-Fat Diet Improves Weight Loss, Mood. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2007;86:580-587

2. YD Chen, AM Coulston, MY Zhou, CB Hollenbeck and GM Reaven.Why do low-fat high-carbohydrate diets accentuate postprandial lipemia in patients with NIDDM? Diabetes Care, Vol 18, Issue 1 10-16.

Liu S, Willett WC, Stampfer MJ, Hu FB, Franz M, Sampson L, Hennekens CH, Manson JE. A prospective study of dietary glycemic load, carbohydrate intake, and risk of coronary heart disease in US women. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2000 Jun;71(6):1455-61.

Gardner CD, Kiazand A, Alhassan S, Kim S, Stafford RS, Balise RR, Kraemer HC, King AC. Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN diets for change in weight and related risk factors among overweight premenopausal women: the A TO Z Weight Loss Study: a randomized trial. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2007; 9 (297): 969-77

Frederick F. Samaha, M.D., Nayyar Iqbal, M.D., Prakash Seshadri, M.D., Kathryn L. Chicano, C.R.N.P., Denise A. Daily, R.D., Joyce McGrory, C.R.N.P., Terrence Williams, B.S., Monica Williams, B.S., Edward J. Gracely, Ph.D., and Linda Stern, M.D. A Low-Carbohydrate as Compared with a Low-Fat Diet in Severe Obesity. New England Journal of Medicine. Volume 348:2074-2081. May 22, 2003. Number 21

3. K. M. Venkat Narayan, MD; James P. Boyle, PhD; Theodore J. Thompson, MS; Stephen W. Sorensen, PhD; David F. Williamson, PhD. Lifetime Risk for Diabetes Mellitus in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2003;290:1884-1890.

Shane Ellison holds a master’s degree in organic chemistry and has first-hand experience in drug design. He is an internationally recognized authority on therapeutic nutrition and author of Health Myths Exposed, The Hidden Truth about Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs and The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery. Read his free report entitled The Foundational Health Education to beat obesity, heart disease and death by prescription drug:
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Obesity and the Brain: The Exercise Connection

By Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., CNS

For years, conventional wisdom has been that exercise helps control weight by simply burning calories. But it appears that it does much more than that.

Last year, Arthur Kramer, Ph.D., did some groundbreaking studies at the University of Illinois. His research found that merely 30 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise three to five times a week could increase the size of the brain. The mechanism? A powerful chemical called Brain Derived Neurotropic Factor (BDNF). Harvard Professor of Psychiatry John Ratey, M.D., has called this substance “Miracle-Gro for the brain.”

According to a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine, BDNF may help regulate calorie intake. People with low levels of the chemical have a considerably greater risk of being overweight.

This new study isn’t the first time a connection between obesity and BDNF has been noted. In a 2007 study in Neuroscience, researchers removed the BDNF gene in two of the appetite-regulating areas of the brains of mice. They promptly became fat!

But genes aren’t destiny. Researchers were able to get the mice back to normal weight by restricting their food intake.

It’s always easier to eat less food if you aren’t too hungry. So why not boost levels of a natural compound – BDNF – that could help control your appetite in the first place? Especially when you can increase your BDNF levels so easily… with basic, everyday exercise.

[Ed. Note: Natural methods - including plain old exercise - can have a powerful effect on your health. For more natural ways to feel better and live longer, check out nutrition expert Jonny Bowden's book The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth.

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